Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-07-23
NOBLE LORDS OF BRITAIN.
onoer Specimens OF Tilted Classes and the
Company They Keep.

The estates of the Earl of Donough-
more are in Kerry. Not long ago the
noble lord made a trip to Australia, and
brought back with him young bride,
avery beautiful girl, the daughter OF
Col Stevens, well-known Australian.
The return was triumphant one, says
the New York Sun, and was signaled
by grand welcome, fireworks, arches
Of flowers, and all the rest of it, organ
lied by Lord Norton, the Earps partic-
ulsr friend. Only last year the Earl
was still big star in the aristocratic
armament, and in the House of Lords
he moved the address to the Queen.
But suddenly there has come change.
The Earl is missed from his accustomed
paths. His friends who know the cause
of his disappearance keep it to them
selves. The rest of his circle knows in
general way that he used to have
money from Ireland; that he hasn't
any money now, and they point tear
fully to new victim of the Land
League. The true facts about the Irish
landlord, of which the English public
will not be told, are these: He has
mortgaged his estates until the rent
roll no longer suffices to pay interest on
the debt, and has run away from his
young wife, who has no fortune with
which to support him. He now goes
about the country with troop of
strolling players. The bright particu-
lar star in whose wake he is travelling
is tenth-rate actress named Kate Ev-
ersley.
Lord Norton, the former friend of
the Earl, is living at Brighton, and
recently he was taken with an aris-
tocratic impulse to go a-slumming. In
dingy bar-room attached to q low
music hall his lordship came across an
interesting couple. They were very
oozy over pot of small beer, a half
loaf and large Spanish onion, which
they were sharing in friendly spirit.
One of the couple whose picturesque
appearance had attracted Norton was
Kate Eversley. The other was the
Earl of Donoughmore. Lord Norton
was shocked, and he gave vent to his
feelings in a pathetic "My Godm He
proceeded to demonstrate with his
former associate and to reproach him
for deserving his wife for such company,
but although the noble earl had moth
ing to say for himself, Kate Eversley
did have something to say. She said it
30 vigorously and championed the cause
of his downfallen lordship so enthusiast
tically that the other lord was van.
pushed, and hastily abandoned the eff
fort to reform his friend.
A fit companion to the Earl of Don
oughmore is Lord Headley, another
Irish landlord. This peer of the realm
has long been known as bad lot, but
of late he has fallen so low that study
of him becomes interesting on account
of the depths to which he has sunk. He
is entirely without money and has so
often deceived his friends that no one
can be found to lend him pound. Last
week he slept for two nights on the
Thames embankment on one of the
garden seats, not having even the pence
necessary for thief's bed. This week
he has earned e5 by introducing to
city sharper youth, impecunious at
present, but who is sure to come into
property. The sharper cashes bill
for the youth at 20 per cent. or so, and
my Lord Headley gets his wages as de-
coy. Both of the aristocrats described
are at the present moment members of
the House of Lords, the superior branch
of England's law-making machine, and
should it be necessary they could both
be whipped up, one from his strolling
players company, and the other from
his bench on the embankment, to vote
with other noble lords to make law of
the coercion bill.
A peers eldest son has just made an
offer of marriage to fair barmaid at
the Gaiety restaurant. She has &C
cepted him, and the bans will be called
for the first time soon, when the
respective names, which are now being
kept secret, will be publicly announced.
WHEN Bishop Taylor comes back
from Africa, if he ever does come back,
he will have some interesting expert
ences to relate. Recently he and his
fellow missionaries arrived at a village
when the inhabitants were preparing
to go on hunt. 1t took them whole
day to do this, although not one weapon
was Furnished or put in order. The
time was spent in making the neces-
sary Precipitation to the demons-it
were mockery to call them gods-who |
ruled the forests and all the country
round about During the first half Of
the day they had pondered solemnly
and danced frantically, led by their
chief in the effort to think up some
new and extraord nary sacrifice to
make. At last they struck it. They
dug four little holes in the ground
about q foot deep, each in the form of
. square. They then took the one
goat of the poorest man among them
and put her feet in the holes. With
the precious water from their well they
moistened the dirt and, every man
pitching into work. they packed the
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